2012 Review:Short stories again. Mostly, but not entirely, consisting of more Leon antics.A little strange is the insistence that the three have now gone completely legit. As in, no more torturing and killing and stealing and kidnapping and all that fun stuff. Because supposedly Manfred promised as much for himself and his friends when they received the pardon and supposedly they never broke that promise. Which completely contradicts most of what they were up to in the previous volume, which most definitely takes place after the pardon, as well as even in the first few stories in this book. Well, okay, I think they hold back on murder here, but that’s the extent of it. They totally killed the villain in the previous book. Very deliberately, too.It does end on a somewhat sinister note, though. Namely with Leon going on a mission to kill someone with apparently no intention of telling his friends. That’s disturbing because the one thing that may have stood in their favour concerning the vigilantism was that the three (or four) were supposed to be completely honest with one another and share everything. That’s kinda necessary to prevent one of them going bad (although of course it’s never stated as such). So yeah. Kinda depressing as an end to the series.
